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Dawn Spacecraft Achieves Orbit Around Dwarf Planet Ceres
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| March 6, 2015
Posted on 03/06/2015 2:40:15 PM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
03/06/2015 2:40:15 PM PST
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Looking forward to some new pics.
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posted on
03/06/2015 2:44:19 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: BenLurkin
I did some analysis on the Dawn High Gain Antenna, so it is great to see it still going.
To: BenLurkin
So when does the mining operation start?
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posted on
03/06/2015 2:47:51 PM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: BenLurkin
I want to know what the reflective spots are.
Likely ice, obviously, but it’ll be nice for confirmation.
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posted on
03/06/2015 2:51:22 PM PST
by
Crazieman
(Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
To: BenLurkin
...
the solar systems main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.A new planet in the making, or the remains of Krypton?
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posted on
03/06/2015 2:53:07 PM PST
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
The glint on the surface that they picked up a few days ago almost certainly had to be a reflection from ice unless it was a Cerean with a signal mirror. If there is lots of water/ice on that planet/asteroid/whatever, it might be the most valuable piece of real estate other than the Earth itself in the solar system. Plop a nuclear power plant on the planet, make hydrogen/oxygen, make rocket fuel and air.
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posted on
03/06/2015 2:57:51 PM PST
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
To: BenLurkin
Er
I think the correct term is “Little’ planets. Just saying. src/
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posted on
03/06/2015 2:59:51 PM PST
by
DanielRedfoot
(Creepy Ass Cracker)
To: JimRed
Alderaan...
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posted on
03/06/2015 3:03:12 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Crazieman
I want to know what the reflective spots are.
Reflections off of THEIR long-range telescopes.
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posted on
03/06/2015 3:16:40 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: The Antiyuppie
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posted on
03/06/2015 3:21:25 PM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: BenLurkin
Let me guess - it looks like a rock.
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posted on
03/06/2015 3:21:52 PM PST
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Dr. Thorne
(The night is far spent, the day is at hand.- Roman 13:12)
To: BenLurkin
Any idea when new photos are going to be coming in?
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posted on
03/06/2015 3:24:18 PM PST
by
The Cajun
(Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
To: cripplecreek
Looking forward to some new pics. Well then get some popcorn out for... December.
See, first it's in the dark, then photos are only taken for navigational and orientational purposes, then months of mumblemumblemumble have to take place before the science photos can begin in December.
No joke. That's the plan.
Because, of course, they have to see what's there first, so they can decide if we get to see what's there later.
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posted on
03/06/2015 3:26:09 PM PST
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: Talisker; cripplecreek
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posted on
03/06/2015 3:33:59 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/06/2015 3:35:53 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: BenLurkin
Pronounced like the breakfast food, hilarious watching the anchors trying to pronounce it. Both are named after the Greek goddess.
To: Talisker
I would love to see the images from the ISS that ‘they’ have deemed too something or another for us to see. There were some pretty wild videos released in real time, from manned space fights, of things going one direction and then reversing course, before Muslim outreach program started a new policy of no more real time video or images.
To: BenLurkin
And in a related story, NASA announced that as part of it’s Muslim outreach effort Ceres will now be renamed Xerxes.
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posted on
03/06/2015 3:37:35 PM PST
by
outofsalt
( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: JimRed; BenLurkin
Superman's just powers were derived from the difference between the red sun of Krypton, and the yellow sun of Earth. So Krypton could not have been in our solar system.
By all reliable accounts Alderaan existed "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away." That would rule out its being in our solar system as well.
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posted on
03/06/2015 3:37:48 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(Every time you type "LOL" the entire Internet knows you're a dumbass.)
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